Wednesday, March 10th 2010
GeForce 196.78 Beta Driver Runs GeForce GTX 470
Czech technology website PCTuning confirmed a few details about NVIDIA's upcoming performance graphics accelerator, the GeForce GTX 470. It was found out that a beta driver by NVIDIA, GeForce 196.78 supports GeForce 400 series accelerators, and was able run a qualification sample of GeForce GTX 470. The card was using A3 revision GF100 silicon. The driver's System Information dialog revealed that the card indeed has 448 CUDA cores (SIMD units). Further, it has 1280 MB of memory, and a 320-bit wide memory interface. NVIDIA also changed the way it represents memory clock speeds. Since it is using GDDR5 memory, while the memory has an actual clock speed of 1000 MHz, the data rate (DDR speed) is represented first, as 2000 MHz, and "effective speed" next, which is 4000 MHz.
Given these speeds, at 1000 MHz GDDR5, the GPU has a memory bandwidth of 160 GB/s. Without compromise on looks and quality, NVIDIA kept the cooler design basic. It has a matte finish. Display outputs include two DVI-D, and one mini HDMI. It supports NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround (a technology competitive to ATI Eyefinity, to span a display head across multiple physical displays), just that NVIDIA requires at least two accelerators in SLI to use it. NVIDIA's GeForce 400 series graphics accelerators will be launched on the 26th of this month.
Source:
PCTuning
Given these speeds, at 1000 MHz GDDR5, the GPU has a memory bandwidth of 160 GB/s. Without compromise on looks and quality, NVIDIA kept the cooler design basic. It has a matte finish. Display outputs include two DVI-D, and one mini HDMI. It supports NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround (a technology competitive to ATI Eyefinity, to span a display head across multiple physical displays), just that NVIDIA requires at least two accelerators in SLI to use it. NVIDIA's GeForce 400 series graphics accelerators will be launched on the 26th of this month.
24 Comments on GeForce 196.78 Beta Driver Runs GeForce GTX 470
as long as it runs as fast as a 5870 ill be happy.
will be getting Nvidia 3D vision and i use cuda programs so ati cards, atho better price/performace (atm etleast) they dont have the features im after.
heat and power consumption are at the bottem of my list :D
Isn't ATI waiting to launch a revised/cherry picked/OC series to counter this?
Wow, so if you want 3 screens or 3D vision you need 2 cards? These cards are like gonna be like $700 where i live so thats $1400 for a gimmick 3D thing?
A 5870 is like $500 here. Again Nvidia is ridiculously overpriced.
Don't forget that even GTX 260 216 core in SLI is better than a 5870.
www.legitreviews.com/article/1176/5/
Both has only 432cores, not 448 as the GTX 470 has. And don't forget you have GDDR5 on this card :).
Basicaly GTX 470 is 2x GTX 280 (224core X2), only you get dx11, GDDR5 and hopefully better clocks.
I will stick with my 2xGTX 260 for the moment, don't have money for a new card :(
Cheers ! :toast:
Only thing is i don't think my PSU will be able to handle a GTX 470.
I see two six pins, so im hoping it doesn't take a beast of a PSU.
And please, this is just a suggestion, but when talking about performance, please try to use "faster", instead of "better". Which card or setup is better is something that can't be obtectified: GTX260 SLI is faster when SLI works and far cheaper than HD5870, but it consumes much more power and it depends on SLI profiles. HD5870 is faster when multi-GPU support is not there and has DX11, it also consumes less, but it costs much more and considering that SLI/Crossfire is supported in most tittles, it's usually significantly slower than GTX260 SLI. Which one is "better" depends on many things that have to be considered by each of us. On the other hand, we do know which one is faster, which one consumes less...
But we have to pay for it...
Ati can stay in the " price/performance ".
The fastest card of the planet title is only for nvidia. :nutkick:
I have 2 4870 toxics in crossfire & the setup has generally served me very very well with the exception of Bad Company 2 - it tends to take a serious FPS drop when im right in the middle of a mortar strike & a few tanks blowing up, nades blowing up, houses on fire etc etc, but in my setups defence I do have every setting forced to 'high' & forced HQ mode in ATi CCC but otherwise the performance is great.
As for myself, I have confidence that nVidia has some good hardware on their hands so I'm either getting 2x470 or 2x480, depending on the pricing vs. actual performance difference between the two setups. If the performance of 2x480 is around 30% or more than 2x470 and the difference is only $150 to $200 or so, then I'm getting 2x480, if not then it's 2x470 for me.
Either way, I'm going with nVidia. For multi-GPU setups nVidia just makes more sense nowadays, at least until AMD gets their scaling issues fixed with CrossFire.
While also holds the " price/performance " :p
I read somewhere GTX480 performance will be equivalent to GTX295 and it's going to retail for about $699 therefore if HD5970 is superior to GTX295 and retails for the same price, AMD will be in a comfortable zone.
Let's wait...
At the end the true battle is in the mid-range and low high-end of the market, that's where I am anyway.
Nvidia's multi-screen 3D has no resemblance to ATI's eyefinity at all, nvidia's thing is 3D (glasses) stuff over several displays, and ATI's thing is normal vision of even more displays.
And yeah nvidia obviously hopes the gimmick adds the same value as ATI hopes their eyefinity gimmick does, but they are not similar apart from that really.
Funnily enough both technologies need similar graphics power to be useful though, and both require you to spend a lot on monitors, ATI makes you get 6 screens, of which a few need to be displayport, and nvidia requires you to get 3 120Hz screens, and 3D glasses, so in both cases you better have some cash left after buying their top-of-the-line cards.
But it'll fit nice with your gulftown CPU, and your lamborghini in the driveway.